#UPDATE Austrian Matthias Mayer has defended his Olympic super-G title to make history as the first male alpine skier to win gold medals in three consecutive Games.
Mayer won his first super-G title in Pyeongchang in 2018 and also won downhill gold at the 2014 Sochi Olympics
@AFP’s Daniel Mihailescu photographs the women's skeleton training at the Yanqing National Sliding Centre during the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games
Nathan Chen smashes world record held by his rival Yuzuru Hanyu as the Japanese two-time reigning Olympic figure skating champion makes an uncharacteristically shaky start to his title defence
Dual winter sports champion Ester Ledecka successfully defended her snowboard parallel giant slalom title at the #Beijing2022#WinterOlympics -- even if she did not immediately realise it u.afp.com/wY7Z #AFPSports
#UPDATE Japanese figure skating icon Yuzuru Hanyu was "shocked" after making a shaky start to the defence of his Olympic crown, while Californian-born teenage freestyle skier Eileen Gu won a thrilling gold for China at #Beijing2022 u.afp.com/wY8Q #AFPSports
🌏 Today at #Beijing2022
🏅🎿 Japanese figure skating icon Yuzuru Hanyu was "shocked" after making a shaky start to the defence of his Olympic crown while Californian-born teenage freestyle skier Eileen Gu won a thrilling gold for China #AFPSports
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#BREAKING 104 police, 30 journalists among injured in Bangladesh clashes: TV
#UPDATE Protesters in Bangladesh set fire to several government buildings during a day of deadly nationwide clashes between students and riot officers, a police statement said.
"The miscreants have already torched, vandalised and carried out destructive activities," on the offices of state broadcaster BTV and the national disaster management agency along with "various" police and government buildings, said the statement, issued after a nationwide internet shutdown
Bangladesh wakes to torched government buildings, internet blackout.
This week's unrest has killed at least 39 people including 32 on Thursday, with the toll expected to rise further after reports of clashes in nearly half of the country's 64 districts
#BREAKING Biden says still considers Xi a 'dictator'
#UPDATE US President Joe Biden said after a summit with Xi Jinping that he still considers the Chinese president a "dictator", after he sparked fury from Beijing by making the comparison earlier this year.
"Well look he is, I mean he's a dictator in the sense that he's a guy who's running a country, a Communist country, that's based on a form of government totally different than ours," Biden said at the end of a news conference when a reporter asked if he would still use the term to describe Xi
#BREAKING China will not begin armed conflict with any nation, President Xi Jinping said Wednesday, after a high-stakes summit with US President Joe Biden.
"China does not seek spheres of influence, and will not fight a cold or hot war with any country," he told a gathering of business leaders in San Francisco
#BREAKING Any compromise with Russia will 'destroy' Ukrainian statehood: presidential aide to AFP
#BREAKING Putin says West used grain deal for 'political blackmail'
VIDEO: Ukrainian firefighters battle flames after a Russian strike on Odesa.
Ukraine's president accused Russia of deliberately targeting grain export infrastructure in the city after Moscow ended a landmark deal and lifted security guarantees in the Black Sea
#BREAKING Putin says situation 'difficult' in Rostov in southern Russia
#UPDATE Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday acknowledged a "difficult" situation was unfolding in the southern city of Rostov-on-Don, where the Wagner mercenary group has taken control of key military sites in an effort to oust Russian military's top brass.
#UPDATE President Vladimir Putin vowed Saturday he would not allow Russia to slip into civil war, after the leader of the Wagner mercenary force seized a key military headquarters overseeing the offensive in Ukraine.
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